The federal government was created by the sovereign states under a contract called the Constitution that strictly limited the power of the created entity.
Basically, if it doesn’t involve an interaction with a foreign entity or an UNRESOLVABLE conflict between states, then the fedgov has no authority.
It seems there is nothing new under the sun...
We again warn our people in America of the constantly increasing threat against our inspired Constitution and our free institutions set up under it.
The same political tenets and philosophies that have brought war and terror in other parts of the world are at work amongst us in America.
The proponents thereof are seeking to undermine our own form of government and to set up instead one of the forms of dictatorships now flourishing in other lands.
These revolutionists are using a technique that is as old as the human race—a fervid but false solicitude for the unfortunate over whom they thus gain mastery and then enslave them.